VENDORiQ: AI Innovation Recap – October 2025
A recap of important vendor announcements this month, such as a product launches, M&A, or changes in licensing agreements.
IBRS Advisor Team
3 November, 2025
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IBRSiQ October 2025
Lately, the big questions for CIOs have revolved around strategic ICT challenges, ensuring proper governance and maximum value from IT investments. The key trend is artificial intelligence (AI), with senior leaders keen to understand the AI landscape, including practical uses for generative AI, to guide investment decisions and ensure the new tools align with established principles
IBRS Advisor Team
31 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Oracle AI World – Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia Keynote. Why is it Important?
Oracle’s vision: AI-as-a-Service built into OCI and applications will drive productivity, minimise customisation, and secure business outcomes.
Mike Mitchelmore
28 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: CustomGPT Levels Up Business Processes with Enhanced Image Analysis
CustomGPT.ai’s new visual processing allows AI agents to incorporate images (diagrams, screenshots) as visual citations into responses, leveraging existing multimodal large language model (LLM) technology.
IBRS Advisor Team
28 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Gemini Enterprise – How Does it Stack Up?
Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise elevates existing Gemini capabilities, moving beyond basic prompt-based AI to focus on agentic AI for measurable business value. This shift is Google’s strategy to monetise AI by enabling semi-autonomous services that directly leverage business data, overcoming initial market resistance to proving productivity gains from simple AI adoption
IBRS Advisor Team
28 October, 2025
What is Model Context Protocol, Where is it Heading, and Why Should You Care?
Model context protocol (MCP) is a vital standard enabling AI agents to automate tasks in core enterprise systems, but requires immediate, strong governance for safe adoption.
Joseph Sweeney
9 October, 2025
AI as the Engine of the Innovation Economy: Part 4 – AI Governance Models
AI governance isn’t a brake on progress; it’s a strategic enabler of ethical, scaled innovation, requiring a shift to use-case focus and universal literacy.
Mark Unwin
7 October, 2025
Six Questions for Boards and Six Questions for Executives to Ask Regarding AI
Boards and executives must ask targeted questions to bridge their AI knowledge gap, ensuring responsible adoption and effective governance.
Philip Nesci
7 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Google Gemini Image in OpenRouter – Moving Beyond Manual Prompting?
Creative AI is evolving beyond manual prompting to programmatic, high-throughput image generation with enhanced governance and analytics features.
IBRS Advisor Team
8 September, 2025